> Somehow, some people still believe that it was cancelled for technical reasons, and that the reasons weren't related to Intel wanting to push Itanic as hard a

> Somehow, some people still believe that it was cancelled for technical reasons, and that the reasons weren't related to Intel wanting to push Itanic as hard as they could. The more prosaic reason is that Compaq didn't care about Alpha, they announced they were switching to Itanium before divesting themselves of the IP (selling it to Intel), then merging with HP which had originated Itanium. While originally announced under Compaq just a few months after the DEC acquisition, EV7 ultimately released under HP.